Means for supporting telegraph-wires



' (No Model.) I v M. HETTINGE R.

MEANS FOR SUPPORTING TELEGRAPH WIRES. 'N0f325f743. I Patented" Sept. 8. 1885 INVBNQPOP BY I P ATTORNEY UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

MAIHIAS HETTINGER, or rnnnronr, ILLINOIS.

MEANS FOR SUPPORTING TELEGRAPH-WIRES.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 325,743, dated September 8, 1885.

Application filed November 24, 1884. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern;

Be it known that I, MATHIAS HETTINGER, a resident of Freeport, in the county of Stephenson and State of Illinois, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Means for Supporting Telegraph-Wires and I do hereby declare the following to be a full, clear, and exact description of the invention, such as will enable others skilled in the art to which it pertains to make and use the same.

My invention is an improved means for supporting telegraph or telephone wires in the streets of cities and towns, or in other traveled thoroughfares. The invention is fully described, explained, and claimed in the following specification, and one form of it is shown in the accompanying drawings, in which Figure 1 is a front elevation of one of a series of supports of the general form constituting my invention Fig. 2, a side elevation of said support, the columns being broken away, and Fig. 3a top plan,sl1owi11g one end of said support.

In these views, A A are two opposite posts or columns set at the cnrbings at the respective margins of a street or roadway, S. These columns support an arch, B, and also I a truss consisting of lower members, F, up-

per members, F, posts D, and diagonal bracerods E. Each member F F of the truss consists of two parallel timbers lying on opposite faces of the columns A A, and the arch B abuts against the columns and lies in the space between the timbers of each of the horizontal members. Each of the vertical supports D consists of two parallel posts lyingon opposite sides of the arch B and between the corresponding timbers of the horizontal members F F, and the brace-rods E are also arranged in duplicate to correspond with the timbers F F D. Suitable transverse bolts bind together the timbers F F, and also the timbers F F, and blocks m, Fig. 3, are introduced to prevent springing of the timbers at the points through which the bolts pass.

Between the columns A A are attached to the truss any desired number of preferably vertical spars,G, and to these spars, or to the truss itself, are attached insulators a, of any suitable construction, which sustain the telegraph or telephone wires in the usual way.

In the drawings the spars G are arranged symmetrically with reference to the center 01 the truss, and this arrangement is preferable, as bringing the wires as far as possible from the buildings at the sides of the street. At either side of the spars G are fastened to the truss vertical ladders H H, and similar ladders, as H, Fig. 1, may be placed at intervals between the spa-rs, if needed. A series 01 rounds, R, set in each of the posts or columns A, affords a means of ascending from the ground. A foot board, K, extends from either column along the bottom of the truss to the nearest ladder, and a second footwalk, K, connects the ladders atthe bottom.

By means of the walks K K and ladders H H H,workmen can reach any wire of the series supported by the truss, ascending any of the ladders from the walk K,0r descending by them from the walks K.

Having now described and explained my invention, what I claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is

1. In an improved construction for suspending telegraph-wires or telephone-wires in a street, the combination of two supports on opposite sides of said street, a suitable crossmember resting on said supports and extending across said street, a series of preferably vertical spars fastened to said cross-member, a cross-walk fastened to said cross-member and affording access from one or both of said supports to said spars, and aseries of insulators fastened to said spars andadapted to sustain said wires.

2. The combination of the posts or columns A A, the truss resting on said posts, the spars G,and insulators a, the cross-walks K and K, and the ladders H H H, substantially as shown and described, and for the purpose set forth.

3. The combination of the posts A A, the truss F F D E, the arch B, the spars G, and

. insulators a, the ladders H H H, walk K,

suspended therefrom, and the walks K K, substantially as shown and described, and for the purpose set forth. i

In testimony whereof I have signed this specificationin the presence of two subscribing witnesses.

MATHIAS HETTINGER. Witnesses:

T. K. GREENWOOD, G130. M. FUGATE. 

